Blueeyes Magazine is an online documentary photography magazine devoted to publishing new long-term project work. It is a labor of love created by a dedicated group of people who believe in the power of still photography. The magazine was created in 2003 in response to declining editorial space for documentary images, following in the footsteps of the now defunct Untitled Magazine to publish pictures that support and celebrate passionate and personal photography.

Born from a group of friends who studied together at the Missouri School of Journalism, becoming deeply influenced by photographers like Eugene Richards, Gilles Perres, Larry Towell, and Luc Delahaye, the magazine exists to give a home to projects that examine social, political, and environmental issues around the world.

On a more complex level, Blueeyes is a movement against negative trends in photojournalism that have limited the freedom, self-expression, and evolution of documentary photography as a young medium of mass communication. The magazine strives to publish longer, more personal, and more intricate bodies of work, in direct contrast to the traditional models of the newspaper photo story or the over-simplified, stereotypical coverage of broadcast journalism outlets. While many publications, both in print and online, are happy to regurgitate the same pictures from the same photographers ad nauseam, we are trying to champion unpublished and unheralded work from mainly younger photographers. All of this is in a simple effort to understand our selves and our world more clearly.

Design and technology

Blueeyes is designed for both Mac and PC machines, however we expect you to use a quality browser. We recommend Camino for the Mac and Firefox for the PC. We respect your right to choose, but not your ancient browser. No one respects that thing.

We feel that the majority of your screen should be dominated by large, quality photography. The optimal screen size for Blueeyes viewing is 1152x864. Though you'll do fine with less, we feel the pictures are crisper and space roomier at that size.

Additionally, we felt that the design of the magazine should complement the images, not compete. We chose a soft palette, large images and a simple grid to accommodate multiple layouts and image sizes. We looked to the photo-centric designs of magazines such as Life and COLORS and left the photos alone, unobscured by type. We do offer space with each issue to a designer, design firm or typographer to create a cover for our two main features. These covers are intended to be illustrative companions to the essays. We ask the designer to emphasize creative typography rather than a dependence on image use. If you or your firm is interested in participating in this exercise, send us an email.

Though the magazine is lovingly hand-coded, Blueeyes relies upon some excellent software to do what it does. These include Expression Engine for content management, and the open-source sIFR and mootools framework for some dynamic effects.

Blueeyes strives towards valid, semantic HTML, and tries to be as accessible as an image-driven site can be. There's always room for improvement, of course, so if you have any technical suggestions or requests, please address them to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).

Have a question? Have a submission?

We love to hear from you and we encourage your opinions, advice and questions. That said, we tend to accrue a lot of email. We try to answer each and every one. If you have a particular question, please check here for our FAQs. They may have what you are looking for and save us a trip to the inbox. For submissions, you can go here.

Copyright and reproduction

All photographs and text within are the property of the photographers, writers and/or their employers, and are protected by U.S. and international copyright laws. No photographs, in whole or portion, may be used or reproduced in any way or by any means without prior, explicit written authorization from the copyright holder. Requests for reproduction should be direct to the individual photographers themselves or via the .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).

The design, graphics, logo, and all other elements making up the layout are copyright Blueeyes Magazine, and may not be copied or reproduced without prior, explicit written authorization. Requests for use should be directed to the .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) .

2003-2006 Blueeyes Magazine. All rights reserved.
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